Pacific Island Times Turning Points Global Agenda 2019 | Page 4

Adan Galicia Lopez, 3, was reunited with
his mother in Phoenix in July after he
was separated from her for four months.
Under the Trump administration’s “zero
tolerance” policy for border enforcement,
thousands of children were sent to
holding facilities, sometimes hundreds
or thousands of miles from where their
parents were being held for criminal
prosecution.
Victor J. Blue/The New York Times
CONTENTS
6 From the Editor
8 An Era Without
a Name From Brazil to
Hungary, Trump’s angry
nationalism still resonates.
But American voters push
back while China takes
advantage of his petulance
and an American-Chinese
Cold War looms. By Roger
Cohen
12 20 Things That
Happened for the First
Time in 2018
4
Turning Points
16 The End of
Micronesia The bonds that
used to bind Micronesians
are weakening. Micronesia
as we know will be little
more than a description of a
part of the island Pacific. By
26 A Long Haul Guam
fulfills its geopolitical role
in national defense while
it struggles to fulfil its
desire to regain control of
its own future. By Mar-Vic
Cagurangan
Robert A. Underwood
20 The Next Four Years
Guam’s maga’ håga looks
to finance the office she has
assumed By Bruce Lloyd
22 Higher education in
the Western Pacific:
A great responsibility in
revolutionary times
By Thomas W. Krise
33 Climate Chronicles
Cutting the global
temperature curve depends
entirely on governments to
cut emissions. Governments
can talk the talk but recoil
when it comes to action. By
Michelle Voacolo
30 Chinafication of the
Pacific: New Rules for
New Lending? With the
tides of influence shifting
in the Pacific, Island
nations search for stability
as established lenders
question their priorities. By
Gabriel McCoard
35 Guam Tourism 2019:
Return To Growth With
the continued diversification
of visitor market mix, Guam
has seen record numbers
year over year for the
island. By Jon Nathan Denight